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Word: evils (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
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...present generation has tremendous resources for good and evil, in its wealth and prosperity and in its advancement in knowledge. This generation needs to learn self-control, sense of law and order, and the value of a high ideal. Race prejudice must be wiped out, and the great field of psychological research must be directed. These are the calls of the present need for strong men in positions of responsibility...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LECTURE BY PRESIDENT KING | 3/5/1909 | See Source »

...Good and Evil Results of Athletics. Dr. E. H. Nichols...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEDICAL SCHOOL LECTURES | 12/2/1908 | See Source »

...contrary to the popular view. The idea that a battleship is a godsend to the community where it is built, because it employs so many men was shown to have no relation to the economic question in hand. The employment of too many soldiers is also a great evil, because it prevents these men from being productive laborers and makes them consumers of public money. By the example of the Civil, Boer, Crimean, and Napoleonic Wars, conditions are proved to be at least as bad, if not worse, after a war as during it, disproving the theory that one nation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "The Political Economy of War" | 12/2/1908 | See Source »

...operative arrangement between the educational department and the manufacturing and business interests, by virtue of which the education of boys and girls is continued along industrial lines after they leave the schools. The rules of labor unions in this country make any such arrangement impossible. The remedy for this evil may lie in the development of public sentiment. A new interest has recently been shown in vocational education, so called. This interest should be devoted entirely to the prevention of too early use of child labor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pres. Eliot's Views on Child Labor | 11/30/1908 | See Source »

...know him intimately he endeared himself in countless ways. Of the affectionate regard in which his friends held him I do not trust myself to write. He loved his fellow-men and their love was given him in return. He found the good in all men; if there was evil in those of whom he spoke, it was left unsaid. His large consideration for others was the expression of a nature full of kindliness and goodness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEATH OF DEAN WRIGHT | 11/27/1908 | See Source »

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